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This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”
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This new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.
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Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.
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An album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.
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The guitarist led his razor-sharp band through two sets steeped in bluegrass that, at any given moment, could erupt into psychedelic jams, old-school country, metallic thrashing, or jazzy forays.
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Randall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.
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This week’s poem — Christina Davis’s “FRUITLANDS: or, to Mother a Truth”
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In this splendid album, pianist Kristin Ditlow shares her love of the piano in melody-drenched works from many lands and peoples.
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It is the volume’s autobiographical component, the accounts of Pasolini’s wide wanderings in art and aesthetic revelations, with their dramatic, cinematic flashbacks, that give this collection much of its literary value.
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What makes “Ode to Hip-Hop” such a worthy addition to the Rap Book Library is that it makes room for the contributions and trailblazing importance of artists who have been overlooked. Specifically, artists who aren’t straight men.
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Book Review: “Unfinished” Argues for AI as an Artistic Partner — But at What Cost?